Hive not accepting queen, available.

[ramost...@gmail.com]

I had recently purchased mated queen from Honey Bee Genetics that I decided to use to requeen a swarm I caught. I removed the old queen, waited two hours, and put the new queen in her cage with attendants between the middle two frames in the brood area.

It has been 5 days and they have not accepted her. They have been raising emergency queens instead and have been balling her cage. The hive has become very aggressive.

So, I'm making this queen available and will probably merge the swarm hive with a stronger have in a couple of days.

Anyone need a queen? Plenty of candy left of the candy plug. I've given water to them. 

Text me at 510-508-1352. I'd hate to see her go to waste.

Best,

Richard Thompson

[Mimi Edwards]

I'll take the Queen. I have one mating nuc that for some reason doesn't want to make a Queen or Queen cells......never happened before.    Mimi

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[ramost...@gmail.com]

OK Mimi, I live in North Oakland. Text me at 510-508-1352 and I'll send my address.

[Catherine Edwards]

Hi Richard,

Next time you try to introduce a mated queen, wait 24 hours after removing the old queen and remove the attendants from the cage of the new one. Cut away any queen cells you find before putting the cage

In. Success is more likely, though never guaranteed. 

Catherine 

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[HAL LISKE]

i will trade her for ofmy locals !!  925 437 2066

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[ramost...@gmail.com]

Already gave her away.

[ramost...@gmail.com]

Thanks, Katherine. I thought of removing attendants that never had to in the past. I think I introduced to soon. All is not lost as I'll merge it with another hive after culling the emergency queen cells.

[Gerald Przybylski]

Primary swarms always (without exception) have only the mother queen of the colony.
After-swarms (cast-swarms) may have more than one queen.

If you had an after-swarm with multiple queens, and you killed one of the virgins, I would
imagine the bees would be loyal to the other virgin queen. So they'd attack the caged queen.
How is it that they are trying to raise emergency queens? Did the mother queen have
time to lay some eggs before you dispatched her?

there seem to be some missing facts.

-- Personally I'm a fan of the idea of keeping local honey bee genetics local by buying/trading
queens within the community within our geographic area and microclimate. I'm pretty well convinced
the local feral bees are already dealing with Varroa on their own, since our failure rates
are no worse than the national average and we don't treat for Varroa here in east Oakland.
Leverage off of, and feed back into the local stock...
jerry

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